Everyone has torn apart the battlepass and customization issues, so I thought I’d discuss some other issues that I think are important but that haven’t been getting as much airtime. For context, where I’m currently living, I have a very poor internet connection, so matchmaking is not really an option for me. I also plan to spend lots of time playing custom games with friends and with bots over the lifetime of Infinite, so a functional custom game experience is important to me. I will leave out information about the many crashes I experienced and other bugs, and include those in bug reports.
Custom Games:
- Saving a game mode is very unintuitive. I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or if it just is poorly explained, but when you select a 343 game mode as a base, make a bunch of changes, and then select the “save a copy” button, it saves a copy of the original game mode without any of your changes. Somewhat frustrating… Then in order to save changes, you need to load up your mode, which is so far just a copy of an existing 343 mode, make your changes, and then hit save. It all just seems backwards, and I’ll be submitting some bug reports since this basic functionality doesn’t work half the time anyway. We used to have a simple system where you could load up a game mode, and if you made changes you had the option to “save” over the mode if it was made by you originally, or “save as” a brand new one. Can we either have this sensible system back or fix the current one?
- why are we limited to 8 bots for custom games? You’d think that if we were running the game offline, which is an option in the menus, that we could have enough bots to fill a lobby, provided our machines could handle it. How come I can’t play BTB with bots (with more than 9 players)?
- Please add functionality so bots can use vehicles.
- allow players to have starting equipment in custom games if we choose to, and also allow players to have infinite equipment uses, etc.
- add a setting to toggle on and off one-hit-melee for flag and ball carriers… to be honest, we need the “flag carrier traits” and “ball carrier traits” from past games, but at the very least it would be nice if we could toggle one-hit melee for players carrying objectives if we want that in customs.
- let us toggle on and off player collision for custom games.
Other:
- No match composer??? I haven’t been able to take advantage of matchmaking much yet because of my poor internet where I’m living, but this seems like it’ll be a huge detriment.
- a negative side effect of having no match composer is having no classic modes like snipers, SWAT, fiesta, multiteam, etc.
- where is all the content? There are an adequate number of maps, but the game is sorely lacking in game modes, and customization of game modes is very lacking. It would be nice to see some classic modes built in, like SWAT and snipers, instead of having to make them ourselves.
- Please bring back player collision for all parts of the game!
- turn on friendly fire in social please!
That’s my feedback so far about customs and other general things, excluding the many bugs and crashes I’ve found. Otherwise the game is really fantastic; the gameplay is solid and being able to play customs with bots is an amazing feature. I hope more MP content arrives on December 8th!
Split screen and offline play remind me that I do not suck as much as my internet would have me believe lol.